Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-04-01
SIDEW4LK PR4TTLE.

Snake river orchards are frost-bitten.
Creeks on the mountain are breast
high.
Plenty of salmon and trout in the
market.
Heavy passenger travel over the
stage line.
The small boy will soon turn his bare
feet out to grass.
There is too much talk for the amount
of money in these parts.
The president killed the river and
harbor bill with pocket veto.
The commissioners meet the second
Monday in the month-April IL.
The timber culture, pre-emption and
desert land laws were not repealed.
Some immigrants from Illinois have
already made their appearance here.
Some men are born great. but they
shrink awfully as they get their growth.
= A. Friedenrich left for Portland Mon
day to buy his spring stock of merchan-
disc.
The bill to restrict the ownership of
lands in territories to American citizens
was passed and signed by the president
March 3rd.
The road petitioned for by Major
Harris in the Lake district was viewed
last Sunday.
j. T. Bradley smiled on us Saturday
and SAID the winter wheat in his dist
rict is ''looking splendid"
John Stevens has widened the JuncN,
ton race track, and there is talk of
spring meeting if purses can be raised.
VIM. Won Berge has returned from
Xalla Walla and is going to put the
brewery through. Read his auction
sale elsewhere.
Brother Cleveland will no doubt call
a cabinet meeting to dictate letter Of
apology TO brother Leland for pock citing
the annexation bill.
G. E. Monteith, ex-Indian agent at
Lapwai, is going to embark in the gen.
eral merchandise at Wardner, in the
Ceur d'Alene country.
A letter from Warrens says the FREE
Press is the most welcome visitor the
camp has had all winter, and that they
couldn't keep house without it.
Miss Clarke's private school in this
village is receiving liberal patronage
of the town and country. Reviewing
exercises every other Friday evening.
Tuition, six dollars per q1arter.
Frank Bruegeman was over from the
west side last week, and said that quite
he has been corresponding will come
to Camas prairie to locate this summer.
John higgins has presented us with
an egg laid by an annexation hen,
which shows how completely the news
of Cleveland's pocket veto ''paralysed'
the poor bird. The freak is on view at
the printing Office.
The Lewiston Ne,cs has made the
startling discovery that the opening ol
the Nez Perce reservation would be q
grand thing for Lewiston. The people
down there will probably move in the
matter after awhile, provided it costs
them nothing.
District deputy ). II. Forney in
structed the members of Mt. Idaho
lodge No. 7, l. o. o. F., in the work O
the Rebekah degree on Saturday even.
ing last. A lodge of that degree, the
fifth in the territory, will be instituted
here April 26. the anniversary of thil
flourishing order.
A new town is to be laid out in the
Seven Devils copper district this sum
mer, to be called anna Bristow."
the boys insist on naming the towr
after a lady, we rise to suggest tina
the name of "Helen Blazes' is mucl
more euphonistic and appropriate t.
the locality than any other that lam
guage can invent.
H. G. Brown, of Mt. Idaho, offers 70
sale, at the original cost price, large 10
of California and Oregon made clothing
consisting of mems, gents boys ant
chldren's clothing. The entire stool
was selected carefully with especia
reference to the wants of this commu
nifty, and will positively be sold a
original cost price for cash.
We spent Sunday at Mt. Idaho ant
found an epidemic of influenza raging
among the residents. Miss McBeth
l.. p. Brown, G. w. Case and child, on
n of Geo. Shearer's children, John Bower
Matt. Truscott, Gov. Ward. w. N. Kno'
and Ben Wing are all suffering from il
The same complaint prevailed her